- From: Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <frystyk@microsoft.com>
- Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 12:30:59 -0700
- To: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@simonstl.com>, <XML-uri@w3.org>
> I've had more than enough > epistemology and language theory to appreciate the > distinction between a > name and a thing and the perilous connections between them. Apparently not - you are mixing up the name and the description of the thing the name identifies. > Does http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml refer to that Web page > alone? I don't think so. The Web page is one manifestation of that resource - there may be others. You are likely to be told in the HTTP response whether there are others and how they differ. > >> >For "elements of the common syntax", the equality operation > >> is defined by > >> >RFC 2396. For everything else, you use case-sensitive matching. > >> > >> That's not specified anywhere I've seen, except in the > >> Namespaces in XML > >> Rec that got us into these problems in the first place. > > > >No, the XML-NS doesn't make it clear that the first part of > the sentence > >is true. > > It makes it clear that the second sentence is true. which is not enough. > >RFC 2396 specifies the equality rules for each common syntax element. > > But it doesn't provide equality rules for URIs that don't use > the common > syntax elements - and acknowledges the possibility of such cases. Yes it does - it is the "opaque_part" BNF construction. By default, elements are case-insensitive, the exceptions are listed in section 6. Henrik
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